Claim · #6495180
Apis mellifera · pollination · Angiospermae (class)
pollination · effect: beneficial
pollinates GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“managed honey bees do not substitute for wild pollinator diversity effects”
- Authors
- Dainese M., Martin E.A., Aizen M.A., Albrecht M., Bartomeus I., Bommarco R., Carvalheiro L.G., Chaplin-Kramer R., Gagic V., Garibaldi L.A., Ghazoul J., Grab H., Jonsson M., Karp D.S., Kennedy C.M., Kleijn D., Kremen C., Landis D.A., Letourneau D.K., Marini L., Poveda K., Rader R., Smith H.G., Tscharntke T., Winfree R., Zhang W., Zou Y., et al.
- Year
- 2019
- Publication
- Science Advances
- Page
- 3
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Garibaldi et al. 2013 finding that managed honey bees do not substitute for wild pollinator diversity benefits is canonical; complementarity is the correct framing.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Apis mellifera contributes pollination but lacks behavioral/morphological complementarity of wild bees; non-substitutability finding is well-replicated.”
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